Thursday 03 May 2012 - 12:04:00
Kunos Simulazioni is pleased to announce a new official license partnership with BMW AG.
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Wednesday 18 April 2012 - 11:04:17
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Friday 13 April 2012 - 10:49:20
Kunos Simulazioni is very proud to announce a new car for their forth coming simulation: Assetto Corsa, our first historic Formula One car, the Lotus Type 49, a real legend of motorsport. As described in Michael Oliver’s book, “Lotus 49 – The story of a legend” the Lotus 49 embodies Colin Chapman's original philosophy of simplicity and lightness in an elegant form. In a single leap the Lotus 49 moved Formula One technology several notches up the evolutionary scale, and can now be seen as a pivot about which F1 technology turned and refocused. Not only was the 49 a state of the art design, but it would be driven through several tumultuous seasons by some of the world's greatest drivers including Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Jochen Rindt and Emerson Fittipaldi.
Kunos Simulazioni development team commented:
"We consider it a privilege and a challenge to have a chance to reproduce one of history’s most iconic cars: The Lotus 49 represents a pinnacle in racing simulation, thanks to the combination between history, technology, lightness, power and beauty. With its shape and livery, the Lotus Type 49 is the ultimate representation of a classic age in Formula One racing, just before technology changed as aerodynamics came to the fore, and sponsorship and big business changed the sport forever. We wish to thank Clive Chapman and everyone at Classic Team Lotus for the opportunity and support they are giving us by allowing our team to recreate this kind of beauty and power, to the best of our ability. The Lotus Type 49 puts the physics engine of Assetto Corsa under great stress. Combining low grip vintage tyres with a nimble, lightweight chassis and a peaky powerful engine presents the perfect disaster scenario for any simracing physics engine. At KUNOS Simulazioni we believe that an F1 car of any age is a state of the art racing car, and as such it shouldn’t try to kill you just by exiting the pitlane. The Lotus 49 may be hard to drive to the limits when exploring its full potential, but it should also have exceptional handling, and offer confidence and grip when driven with authority and proper technique. As a result of official licensing, Classic Team Lotus is making real life data and engineering documents available to us, and so far all of our work and fine tuning of our new physics engine confirms our belief of how an iconic Formula 1 Car should handle. At the same time, we are humbled and amazed by the knowledge and ingenuity of the engineers and designers at Classic Team Lotus." The Lotus Type 49 has been modelled in every small detail, with particular attention to its visual and dynamic proprieties. The aim is to reproduce the Lotus 49’s impressive handling agility and power with maximum accuracy. The images released today show the current state of development; meanwhile, we are still working, improving and tweaking in order to bring the authentic, original, unique Lotus Type 49 to your PC.
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Tuesday 10 April 2012 - 16:36:15
Vor einer Woche fand bereits der 4. Lauf der GT-Eins Langstrecken Serie statt. Die 500km von Zeltweg wurden in Abwesenheit der bisher dominierenden Mannschaft von Torrent Motorsport vom Quadriga Corse-BMW gewonnen. Die punktegleiche Mannschaft von Notox Racing startete zwar in den Lauf, gab dann aber zu Rennmitte auf, um die Entscheidung beim letzten Rennen auf der Nürburgring Nordschleife sportlich mit den Konkurrenten ausfahren zu können. Rang 2 belegte der Ostsee Racing-Audi vor dem Jägermeister-Alpina des GT-Eins.de-Racing Teams, das damit das bislang beste Saisonresultat einfuhr. Es wäre sogar für das Team noch mehr möglich gewesen, aber der Alpina musste kurz vor dem Schluss, sicher auf P2 liegend, noch zweimal in die Box, um einen Fehler der Crew beim Betanken auszubügeln.
Leider vergab das Allstar Racing Team eine letzte Chance sich in noch einmal in den Meisterschaftskampf zurück bringen. Das zweite Jaguar-Team in der Serie fiel sehr gutem Start, dann aber nach diversen Fehlern auf P10 liegend in Runde 59 aus. Die Mannschaft Online-Motorsport - bis zum Ende des 2. Drittels auf Podestkurs - hatte in Runde 114 einen Unfall, fiel von P2 auf P7 und patzte bei der Strategie. Das Finale wird nun in zwei Wochen am 21.04. auf der Nürburgring Nordschleife beim 500km-Eifelpokal-Rennen ausgefahren.
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